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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

If you are longing for the 2000’s, you want back the PNA (Program Neighbourhood Agent) back but the man is making you move to receiver, never fear, with some time, configuration and tweeks you can be right back in the comfort zone.

This is the standard Citrix Receiver without sign sing on when it opens the StoreFront store.

First you need to install the agent with the single sign on support (/includeSSON and ,SSON,) in the command line below.

Just as a note when installing this and removing this the ,USB item had to be last to stop errors occurring in installing and the installation failing.

Check that “Automatic Logon with current user name and password” is enabled in local Intranet if that is what you are in (see above).

Check that “Automatic Logon with current user name and password” is enabled in Trusted Sites if that is what you are in (see above).

At this point if you start the receiver you will see the client automatically logs on and gets the desktop(s) as shown below.

If you want to automate further (you needed the self service plug installed, it is if you used my command line above), then you can it force do a logon, a refresh and then see the newly created .EXE dummy files that you can use to create shortcuts in the Start Menu (or Metro interface), yes Windows 8.1 using these commands in the back ground.

Here are the commands to force this:

"C:\Program Files\Citrix\SelfServicePlugin\SelfService.exe" -logon

"C:\Program Files\Citrix\SelfServicePlugin\SelfService.exe" -poll

dir C:\Users\ColvinDave\AppData\Roaming\Citrix\SelfService

If you want to you can make shortcuts to the EXE files, anywhere in the start menu, you cant copy just the .EXE files or you will get the error below.